Shuttered manufacturing company donated to Cros-Lex

Building to be used as maintenance and storage

10:36 PM,
Jul. 18, 2013

Kevin Miller

Written by

Crystal Garcia
| Times Herald

The Croswell-Lexington school district is bucking the trend of districts selling off buildings and property.

Ken Wilhelm has donated to Croswell-Lexington Community Schools a nearly 40,000-square-foot building that used to house Fraser Manufacturing Corp. It is at 7235 Boynton St., across the street from Meyer Elementary in Lexington.

"It seemed like the right thing to do," Wilhelm said. "... I went to school there as a boy back when I was very young, when it was previously an old-fashioned, two-story school house, so I had some fond memories." ...